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Derr, Katja; Hübl, Reinhold; Ahmed, Mohammed Zaki – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
The article describes the development and evaluation of a web-based pre-course in mathematics, delivered to four cohorts of engineering students at a German university. Based on demographic, personal, and learning-related data relationships between students' preconditions, their learning gains in the pre-course, and study success in the degree…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Success, Mathematics Education, Web Based Instruction
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Förster, Natalie; Souvignier, Elmar – School Psychology Review, 2015
Monitoring the learning progress of at-risk students positively affects learning growth. This study transfers the approach of learning progress assessment (LPA) to general education in Germany and investigates the effects of information about reading progress and additional teacher training on student achievement. Classes (n = 43) were assigned to…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Foreign Countries, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement
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Thrul, Johannes; Bühler, Anneke; Herth, Felix J. F. – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2014
Aims: The objective of this study was to evaluate the preventive effect of a clinic-based, emotionally arousing, negative information giving intervention on adolescents' protective and risk factors of smoking. Methods: Data of 563 students (18 schools) from a cluster randomized controlled trial conducted in Heidelberg, Germany (2010-2011) were…
Descriptors: Prevention, Adolescents, Smoking, Randomized Controlled Trials
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Hasselhorn, Marcus; Linke-Hasselhorn, Kathrin – International Education Studies, 2013
Eight six-year old German children with development disabilities regarding such number competencies as have been demonstrated to be among the most relevant precursor skills for the acquisition of elementary mathematics received intensive training with the program "Mengen, zählen, Zahlen" ["quantities, counting, numbers"] (MZZ,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Developmental Disabilities, Numeracy